A dual-sided look at health care and an electrifying study of heroism are among this week’s best bets.
Tag: Frank Sinatra
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Emanuel won’t allow the Cubs to play more night games at Wrigley, and other Chicago news
Also, Kendrick Lamar popped up at his own West Loop pop-up shop.
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Music gifts you can actually wrap
Digital downloads haven’t yet driven box sets extinct—and this year the best include Paul Bowles’s Moroccan field recordings, vintage Ray Charles in mono, a 50-year NRBQ retrospective, and ten discs of foundational 40s bebop from Savoy Records.
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Saxophonist Joe Daley helped pioneer free jazz in the late 50s
Joe Daley cut a live trio album at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1963 that became an early entry in the free-jazz canon.
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Cook County state’s attorney candidate Kim Foxx’s campaign anthem should be Sweet’s ‘Fox on the Run’
The only electoral decision that matters: choosing a soundtrack.
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Arroyo and Berrios kiss and make up
Democratic Party bosses Luis Arroyo and Joe Berrios reveal their truce, bringing together a holy trinity of election law lawyers to try to kick a rookie state rep candidate off the ballot.
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The Wrecking Crew reveals the faces behind the hits
A long-gestating documentary looks at the session players who created the west-coast sound.
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Show us your . . . walls of autographs
After Chicago Theatre shows end, the performers’ John Hancocks remain backstage.
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The Look of Love and the flaunting of flesh
In The Look of Love, Steve Coogan stars as a legendary British sex impresario.
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Reader readers built their very own jukebox
Reader readers build their very own jukebox.
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How I learned to never go out of style
An ode to an unsung style icon who bucked popular notions about what’s fashionable
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Zoom in: River West
Richard’s Bar in River West takes old school to the next level
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A Homemade Canon
Loud Family front man Scott Miller picks his favorites from a half century of pop, and his choices are fun to read about even when they’re hard to agree with.
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A Second Rate Imitation, Watered Down Simulation
Back and forth and then back and then forth again. Circles kinda make me dizzy and I can’t think clearly when I’m dizzy.